The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-25

OK the 18th, BENJAMIN Spandauer, who
was mainly instrumental in securing the
conviction of Mrs. Surratt Of completely
in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln,
was jailed at Baltimore, Md, as pur-
chaser OF perjury
OK the 18th Geneva Stoner, aged seven
teen years, committed suicide at Lancas-
ter, Pa, by taking a dose Of rat poison
She gave as a reason for the act that her
mother would not allow her to go out at
night
WALTER z. LAwToN, a new York mer-
chant, has run away, after defrauding va
rious people to the amount altogether of
about 81, 100000. His effects have been at
tached.
AN appalling hotel horror occurred on
the 18th at Buffalo, N. ", in the burning
Of the new Richmond House. A number
Of human lives were lost and a great
many people were injured
A MAN who from papers found in his
pocket, was undoubtedly Patrick II.
( Dolan, a clerk, fell in front Of an engine
at the Ninth street (New York; station of
/ the Third Avenue Elevated road, on the
/ 18th, and was instantly killed.
THE second trial OF Michael Kaelin, at
/ Louisville, KY, for the murder Of his wife
/ on August z, 1885, resulted on the 18th in
| life. Upon his first trial he was sentenced
10 hang.
THE bodies of two unknown tramps
were discovered in the hot air flue of the
| Isabella furnace at Pittsburgh on the
/ 18th. The men had evidently crawled
into the hue or tunnel to csc ape from the
cold last night, and had been suhocated
/ by the coke gas while sleeping. There
was nothing about them which would
| furnish a Glow to their identity.
| A SAD death by suicide occurred in
| Grant township, Adams County, four
miles north of Lenox, Ia, on the 18th.
/ George Douglass, a well-known farmer,
forty-seven years Of age, shot and killed
! himself with a revolver near hts house.
| No cause can be assigned, unless 1t be
| long continued ill-health. He leaves a
wife and large family.
AT six o'clock on the morning of the
18th the distillery of Dorsel a. Wulftang,
in Covington, KY, was burned to the
ground. Loss, $4,000. One man, Ben
Rucer, was fatally injured.
AT one o'clock on the morning of the
18th John Doty was crossing the Polk
street viaduct in Chicago, when he was
| assaulted by two men, who struck him on
! the head with club, knocking him down.
After rifiing his pockets the thugs fed,
leaving no clew to their identity. DOty
! was conveyed to the County Hospital,
where it was found that his skull was
fractured
THE British ship Eliza A. Kenney, Cap
tain Lawrepce, from Philadelphia, via New
| York for Bremen, has been abandoned at
| sea in sinking condition. The crew were
saved
| OK the 18th DIR. Randall, quack ply
sician of rather unsav oEy reputation, was
shot and instantly killed in the court
room at Hastings, Neb., by an unknown
man, while undergoing preliminary ex
animation on charge of criminal assault
on a girl eleven years of age.
/ CONSIDERABLE uncertainty exists as to
h G actual number of lives lost in the re-
cent Buffalo holocaust 1t is known that
nine are dead and about forty injured, and
1t is feared that the clearing away of the
! debris viii reveal the remains of several
more victims.
MAJOR d. N. Bush, Paymaster U. s. A,
| is reported to have been robbed of 81, 500
at Antelope Springs, Wy. T., by ascowboy
named Charles Parker, who escaped on
/ horseback with his booty under fire of the
| Major and his escort
OK the 10Th, Second Lieutenant J. H. J..
| Wilcox, of the Seventh cavalry, was ar
rested in st. Louis on a charge OF being
| absent without leave, and of duplicating
his pay accounts. He has been sent to
Fort Smelling, Mimi, for trial
On the 10Th a dastardly attempt was
made by an incendiary in Buffalo, N, Y,
to set fire to a tenement occupied by about
a dozen families. The fire, started in the
| basement, in a coal bin, was discovered by
some children, who extinguished 1t.
GREAT preparations are being made at
! Washington for the National drill, which
takes place there from May % to the 30th.
THE police of Berlin state that DeSaieff,
the murderer of Lieutenant Colonel Su-
! deiken, was the ringleader Of the recent
attempt to kill the Gar.
On the Goth, by gunpowder explosion
! in the house OF man named Foster, in
the Indian Territory, two of his children
were killed and himself and wife were Sc
riously hurt